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The software industry is now a healthy, worldwide economic
market, with demand for applications that can run in various languages and
cultures. As early as the late 1980s, the C Standards Committee added support
for non-U.S. formatting conventions with their locale mechanism. A
locale is a set of preferences for displaying certain entities such as dates
and monetary quantities. In the 1990s, the C Standards Committee approved an
addendum to Standard C that specified functions to handle wide characters (denoted by the type wchar_t), which allow support for character sets
other than ASCII and its commonly used Western European extensions. Although
the size of a wide character is not specified, some platforms implement them as
32-bit quantities, so they can hold the encodings specified by the Unicode Consortium, as well as mappings to multi-byte characters sets defined by Asian
standards bodies. C++ has integrated support for both wide characters and
locales into the iostreams library.
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